skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shoot - sorry if I came across as disingenuous! You're right that a lot of the reason we spend time on login is because we want our users' accounts to be secure - but a big advantage of our API is that we extend all that work to third parties. I think it is actually a pretty good drop-in login solution, but you obviously have to have some setup associated with it (the user needs to understand to whom they're disclosing their identity, etc). You don't need to ask for any permissions or query any data (though of course I think you can make things a lot more compelling if you do in a lot of cases).

Agreed that companies should determine how to deliver a great experience. In my opinion, a two-click login with something like FB is a much better experience than registering with another password and confirming your email address, and worrying about what the site's security is like (how do you evaluate this?). It sounds like we'll just have to agree to disagree here.
The rules...

1. Every tweet on public profiles are ... public. Anyone can read them but not all your followers see all your tweets (more later).

2. If your tweet starts with an @mention (as in, the first character of the tweet) then only the user you @mention will see the tweet in their feed (as well as anyone else you @mention in the tweet). It does not display on your followers feeds. That is, unless, you both have mutual followers.

It's a hack and many people don't understand it.
The court did not rule the contract unconscionable because it was a contract of adhesion. They ruled that it was both a contract of adhesion and unconscionable, the combination of which made it unacceptable to the court. "Take it or leave it" remains perfectly acceptable, unless combined with unconscionable terms.
How Patent Trolls Are Hindering Innovation
As a non-EE, something that confused me briefly is that "L-R" doesn't seem symmetric but the scenario is symmetric. But I see now that you'd hear L-R in your left ear and R-L in your right ear. The R current goes the "wrong way" through the left speaker and causes the coil to move opposite the way it does in the right speaker (and vv).
This article suggests both not forcing users to log in, and emailing owners of abandoned carts. In this scenario, how do you get their email addresses in the first place?
Can you turn it on by going to Safari -> Preferences -> Advanced and then checking "Show Develop Menu"?

Also off topic: I don't know how to turn off image loading in Chrome (on Mac). It's like Google is trying to lose my respect. :-/
To be totally fair, a sphincter (I'm assuming this is what you're referring to) refers to a circular muscle structure in the general case. Not just the butthole.

There are sphincters in your eyes.

There is a sphincter in your esophagus.

Your body is full of sphincters.

The anal sphincter is just one of many sphincters.

And now you really do know.
Can anyone provide a SFW link for this?
Interesting point. Just to make sure I understand you correctly, you're saying that even in independent stereo mode, the fact that the two channels have a limited maximum total bitrate means that the encoder can and will trade off bits between the two channels in order to account for one channel or the other needing more data at any given time?

Seems like you could easily create an encoder that didn't do that, and just e.g. encoded each channel at 64kbps when a total of 128kbps is requested, but maybe none of the real-world encoders actually do this.
That just underscores how important the process of jury selection is, and how potent it will be if Samsung can show that they did not get a fair chance to evaluate the jury through actions of others in the trial (they don't have to blame the foreman; they could blame the judge for not questioning him well enough).
Disco: The other Map/Reduce framework
First thing that comes to mind is the xenofungus from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.
It sounds like the only reason Netflix isn't allowed to do FB integration is simply because it involves movies.
I have never really taken to the whole 'exclusive' Svbtle invite-only blogging platform bullshit, but I do agree it is a pixel for pixel copy and so does degrade the brand. No matter what my personal opinion of Svbtle is, copying (and open sourcing the results) is not justified.
Certianly do seem to follow a frost/freeze pattern in some ways, even if they do tend to have a bag of flour type directional point. So can see the reverse icicles. Question is it a biological or a chemical reaction. I do feel that it could be chemical but thats just a hunch and that is what makes it a holy crap mystery.
First he wastes my tax dollars and now my bandwidth?!

/sarcasm
Google built something similar years ago--not a direct competitor to RapGenius, but rather a generic annotation platform for the Web.

Guess what? It's now discontinued: http://www.google.com/sidewiki/
It's not trivial to build annotation platforms that are both compelling and easy to use. Hat tip to RapGenius!
How? A jury that exercise jury nullification _are_ explicitly ignoring the law and the judges instructions. That is the very foundation of the concept.

Nullification is possible only because a jury does not have to logically justify their decisions, and in some jurisdictions (such as the US) can not be overturned at all in the case of not guilty decisions in a criminal trial.

That does not change whether or not jury misconduct may have occurred. It only means that the court and the prosecution is left with limited power to prevent it and, such as in the US, with no recourse if it happens in a criminal trial.
What a wonderful world, on one end you have people moving client side code to the server (node.js, Dart, Meteor) on the other hand you have people trying to move it to the client (GWT, Doppio)
Very very cool project... I will be using this a lot. I put it on my site if you don't mind :) http://pineapple.io/resources/tributary
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TeX and restructuredtext have very different goals. The first lets you specify every little typographical detail for a fixed page-oriented output. The latter focuses on a minimal set of semantic markup which can be used for different presentation media.
It's Not About You: The Truth About Social Media Marketing (Tim O'Reilly)
I don't know, but if a JavaScript VM will succeed where native Java Applets/JavaFX failed, someone at Sun will not be getting a bonus that year.
Hm, this is a very particular way of working with Javascript. The formatting is very strange.
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This is actually a feature that used to exist before Netflix took it away, and now they're lobbying to implement a worse version of it.
The Art of Negotiating an Online Media Buy
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how did you come up with the best brands? many of them I agreed with but I was surprised to see some.
If I can oversimplify a bit, as Murakami-san say: You used to put up with the b.s. that went with working a lifetime in a large, bureaucratic organization. Now that the security & benefits are no longer assured, you see more mid- to upper-mid level workers willing to take more chances and start their own companies.

By no means should you confuse this as being any sort of sea change - the first post is still completely accurate for the majority of young workers, especially - but I think more people are starting to recognize "freelancer" & "self-employed" as something different from "freeter" - a Japanese term that ostensibly means "free + worker" but is really seen as just some young bum who bounces from one part-time job to another.
Using Source Maps with TypeScript
Your point is a good one. However just to interject tangentially, hubris is demonstrably not a 21st century phenomenon, nor imho will it cease to be a phenomenon in any future period of human existence.

"Peaks of knowledge" have existed throughout our collective history and the single uniting feature of each is that they are never peaks. Local maxima perhaps, but the upslope of discovery always reasserts itself eventually. Afaik, nothing indicates that the future will differ in this regard.
If I remember correctly, he actually owned an android device
Based on a bbc interview shortly after the trial
Regarding arguments 1 and 3, non-retina screens are still being produced for the iPhone 3GS. That's Apple's current low-tier product which is often sold for 99 cents with with 2 or 3 year contracts. I don't see why they wouldn't introduce a lower-tier device in tablets like they have in phones. It's the same idea, running older hardware, just in a smaller form factor. Most people don't want to pay iPad prices for a tablet, and the $100-$250 market is ripe.
Rdio is thinking about acquiring Microsoft. Bold move.
We think this is a great day for annotation. But we had a few questions. So we wrote an open letter to Marc Andreessen and Rap Genius.

https://blog.hypothes.is/a-letter-to-marc-andreessen-and-rap...
Is anyone here rejoicing at the fact that due erroneous U.S. immigration policies India and China are suffering less brain drain??
Is "phase cancellation" a general term for situations where two signals cancel out each other?

(I'm rusty at this, but when I read 'phase', I think of a time difference between two signals. In this case, there's no time difference.)
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Why we removed all branding from our interface
This. But without the "/sarcasm". :)
Indeed. The law is pretty arbitrary and outdated in my view. The sole (or at least primary) reason we have it is that Robert Bork's video rental history was leaked during his Supreme Court nomination in the 1980s.
hate to break it to you, but Sun hasn't existed as a company since early 2010...
They decided recently this is a developer feature, so you have to enable the "Show Develop menu" feature (in the "Advanced" pane of Safari's preferences window).

This irritated me at first, but then I recalled the time my dad (accidentally) viewed a website's source, and how perplexing it was to him.
Yep,
Just waiting for the eclipse/IDEA plugin...
747 responses. Not statistically significant at all. Extrapolating anything from these results could be very misleading obviously.
Maybe. But there was a Yahoo Pipes example a good number of years back that allowed even more flexibility than what craigslist has done. IIRC, the Pipes author had a dog and was searching for an apartment that allowed pets and was within a certain distance of a park.
Five top tips to starting a successful business
trying to win over the geeks now.
A New Microsoft.com
Great points all around.
It wouldn't have to be latex. What's wrong with mylar?
This is an existing feature. You watch a tv show or movie, it shares it on your FB page. It's very annoying to have what I'm watching shared, but I must admit I like how Netflix shows you what your FB friends are watching.

Edit: Turns out this feature isn't on the American version of Netflix...
Item #2 on PG's ambitious idea list: better email.
Make health insurance universal and put downward pressure on the insurers' costs. The insurers then bargain down the health-care costs.

That's what we do over here, and the result is that doctors here complain about how hard they had to work to become merely upper-middle class rather than outright wealthy.
You should be able to figure out if the signal is coming from inside vs. outside based on signal attenuation. Systems are being developed to pinpoint user location indoors based on this technique. Fortunately, your use case is more binary: Is the bluetooth signal passing through a door. Any dBm above a certain number would just be assumed indoors.

Great stuff and good luck!
Co-founding a startup: The good, the bad, the ugly
here's an eclipse based editor specifically built for writing/managing your thesis. http://www.chapterlab.com/
Canadian Startup Wavo.Me Wants to Become the Social Network for Music
How To: Find Currently Running Long Jobs in SQL Agent
I agree with the hardware review, my major concern is not the cool digital part but the actual bits and pieces because locks break all the time, and this is essentially adding another layer that can break.
Mitt Romney's Technology Stack
It is easiest to make money by being amoral.

This is distinctly a different approach from being immoral.

Caveat Emptor is neither evil nor consistent with the golden rule.
Just a Fyi, your form errors on emails with spaces before or after.
How exactly Chavez, an elected leader of a sovereign country, not a dictator or a mass murderer or anything, fits in the company of people mentioned here?

Or is it just a generic list of people that Americans are told "are bad persons", because some are indeed dictators and others just stand in the way of the foreign exploitation of third world country and it's natural resources?
I don't think so, it would still be audible when the signal L and R have in common is transmitted. Maybe if put at a low enough volume?

I'm just guessing here, though. Definitely not an expert.
If you replace "rights" with "remedies", your comment makes a lot more sense.
Solar concentration only works with direct sunlight. Even a small amount of haze makes power output plummet. Outside of deserts, concentrating solar isn't terribly useful, and in deserts, you want a technology that allows better concentration ratios, like solar thermal. There's a reason concentrated PV is unpopular.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrated_photovoltaics
Dear author of the blog post: you are wrong. Watching is a deeply personal experience and sharing it is the last thing I think about when I go to Netflix. And most people on Facebook/whatever social network are not really your friends. And there is no shortage of ways to communicate with _real_ friends should I want to discuss a movie with them. So let Netflix focus on their core functionality instead of this social nonsense.
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"Annotation eventually belongs in the browser." Couldn't agree more.

Endless comment streams proved to be of little if no value. Rap Genius is a glaring example that annotations (when designed and user properly) have way more potential than comments. The big money investment on Rap Genius just seals the deal, and pave the way for a Web where annotations are first class citizens.

Hope all the browsers will jump in the bandwagon very soon.
One could still have free music for those who value
dollars more than time.

If the music can be copied freely, couldn't the cover art and other metadata also be copied?

There's no reason in principle that an ad-supported iTunes clone couldn't do everything iTunes does - it could be more convenient, in fact, as you wouldn't have to muck around with credit card numbers and passwords. The only reason piracy is inconvenient at the moment is because it's illegal.
I am opting out by emailing the first @paypal.com address I can find. I have altered my agreement with paypal to the effect that notifying them in this way is permissible.
Computer Hackers: Juvenile delinquents or Internation saboteurs?
This overstates the case. The Grateful Dead might very well have had millions of fans; they just kept forgetting where they were up to in the count, and so started back at zero out of a basic sense of fairness.
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It is also used by prototype.js - http://api.prototypejs.org/dom/dollar-dollar/
But then why isn't, say, academia incredibly lucrative? It's got both measurement and leverage in the form of research grants, and leverage as well in publications.
I doubt it, straight Java is much faster than converting Java to Javascript and then executing it, even with JIT.
Video/Photo: Retro Mike Tyson Flattens a Terrified Michael Spinks.
This is the 3rd frontpage article about TypeScript in 3 days. It certainly seems to be getting a lot of 'air time' amongst developers.

I can't help but see this as a good thing for the languages adoption. Languages live and die based on the community that arise around them. So it bodes well for typescripts future to see so much discussion and interest around it.
I'm pleasantly surprised that the compiler supports source maps out of the box even though IE doesn't support them yet.
Even if you see that it is a joke you can find it a bad, pretentious joke.
I kind of like that it has no external surface. I'd even consider removing the keyhole if it worked well and just having a perfectly smooth door. (would have to auto close the door and have a deadbolt snib thing)
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Yes, they could. But can you include some reasoning with how they would have done that? Some sound more likely than others.

The panspermia theory [1] is based on the idea that perhaps some forms of life could exist in space as it transits from place to place. One of the things that has always bothered me about that hypothesis is the orbital mechanics. Which is to say if you posit a supernova or other energetic event that accelerated a planet (or fragments of that planet) into space, and somehow the life on those fragments survived both the radiation and the effects of vacuum on volatiles, and then it arrived in our solar system, what would the relative velocities be of that material with respect to our planets? And then when that material impacted a local rocky planet how much energy would be released and how would it survive that?

The 'primordial soup' theories have thus always held more interest for me as being more probable. With papers like this one: http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/10/simple-reaction-makes... lending a bit of narrative around how it might have occurred. But the primordial soup theories also need evolution to get from a happenstance chemical mixture into something like multi-cellular organisms.

So follow your chain of reasoning and see what questions it leads you to:

"down from an external source" ...

From where?

How did the plant get there to come down?

What is needed to survive a fall from space? At what velocities?

Etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia
meh, I think it's just a simple style. Yeah, so it's imitating some other blog network, but really, I didn't even know Svbtle was a thing until a minute ago. It's not exactly a super well recognized brand outside some small SF circles...
I'm not positive about this, but what if you take white noise (or pink noise to keep the frequency distortion to a minimum) and then add your hidden message to the left and right channels? Split it so that every other frequency band is on the other channel (L, R, L, R, etc) to keep it roughly even, and make sure the noise is on both channels equally (centered). The noise would drown out the message generally, and the message would only "come out" when the center was subtracted.
How are employment contracts for 6-figure jobs "under duress"?

Those non-standard terms (non-disparagement, arbitration only) are almost always presented after the person has gone through the interview process, accepted an offer, and given notice at the previous employer. If the companies put those policies on their websites for the public to find, then it wouldn't be under duress. Companies with onerous employment terms would be known to have them before people spent time on an interview.
I was slashdot user # 404. Thanks, Rob.
I'm not sure you read past the first paragraph ... the author is on your side; Netflix isn't.
> ... zits, bad hair, body odor, bad clothes, bad table manners also hurt you.

I wasn't born in America (I'm Indian -- I'm used to eating rice with my bare hands) -- never ate American food, thus I have no table manners.

Where/how do I learn them? I've tried to read some internet articles and such but that didn't help me -- I'm still quite messy with my handling of fork and knife (and not very knowledgeable about what to say when and how ("pass me that that dish over there please?")
It's pretty inconsistent when 4 inches is "slightly larger" for Apple but 4 inches is "hugely larger" for anyone else.
MSVC support in FFmpeg. C99 to C89 translator
I like the nice scrolling effect within the developer-stories/
My thoughts were that if Samsung can successfully argue jury misconduct based on the deliberations inside the jury room, then any future verdict based on the doctrine of jury nullification can be similarly argued as 'misconduct' by the losing party.
Here is why mine have died:

Running out of funding. This is a tough one to deal with, because you think you can make up funding with more work. My solution is to offer a very stage product right from the start in order to get some cashflow going in. So far it has worked.

Building something people don't want. I once spent two years developing an idea to only realize people did not want to pay for it. Two years spend buying equipment, developing marketing, etc. But I did not test the market. I know.

Lack of sales skills. This one is really tough. As an introvert, is was really hard getting how sales work. I read book after book trying to find the magic formula. Turns out that sales skills are more about social skills than anything. So my lack of sales skills were really a lack of social skills. One good startup died due to that. But I did realize the problem, and have been working on improving my sales/social skills. So far so good...

Wrong market. Spent five years trying to sell to a market that would not buy from me. Why? A combination of lack of social skills and pricing kept me from achieving any success.

Being the lone founder. My biggest successes have been when I've worked with someone else. Having someone to split the workload makes a huge difference.

Buying too much inventory ahead of time/demand. I still have some left.

Not getting deals on writing. A good startup I was building died because I did not get a deal in writing. I went and bought some inventory to satisfy the deal, and then the buyer backed out.

I have many more... :)
Fascinating... I knew * plonk * made a sound, but by 1994 I had always heard it retronymmed to "put loser on newsgroup killfile", which wasn't quite satisfying - Why the awkward phrasing?

Now I know the truth. You can't stop the signal.
For sure he's gutsy, but venture capital today means mostly "putting large amounts of money into startups that have yet to become businesses"-YCombinator demo day is the most fitting example that comes to my mind right now.

At least it's a breath of fresh air... no disruption just for the sake of using a buzzword--rather money poured on a project that has a faithful community, and with some niche design choices.
Reminds of anything? Reddit!
Plates has separated markup and function very well, IMHO
https://github.com/flatiron/plates
Investor Watchdog Wants to Change Wall Street Sales Practices
The legal terminology is a little confusing given the common usage of the word "right." The option to sue that arises under some law as the result of a specific injury is a "right." The compensation for that injury from a successful suit is the "remedy." You can of course bargain away your remedy, but winning a suit and paying it over to someone else, but that's not what I was referring to.